John Carlos

[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar…

— John Carlos

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know…

— John Carlos

The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color…

— John Carlos

I'm not too proud to do any job to support my family.

— John Carlos

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I…

— John Carlos

I think it's something that we said collectively, in terms of the fact that we was getting ready to face probably the…

— John Carlos

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the…

— John Carlos

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

— John Carlos

I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but…

— John Carlos

It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for…

— John Carlos

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to…

— John Carlos

Peter Norman's a man's man.

— John Carlos

In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you…

— John Carlos

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country…

— John Carlos

Peter [Norman] never vacated from himself as to who he was.

— John Carlos

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you…

— John Carlos

The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go…

— John Carlos

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very…

— John Carlos

[Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in…

— John Carlos

Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever…

— John Carlos

Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but…

— John Carlos

Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the…

— John Carlos

It's many things that she had to deal with, and she got to the point where [my wife] didn't know what to…

— John Carlos

Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit…

— John Carlos

Peter [Norman] never denounced us, he never turned his back on us, he never walked away from us, he never said one…

— John Carlos